A career in childminding makes it easy to support your children from home without sacrificing a thing. If you’re looking for employment as a home based childminder, au pair or nanny, you can do that too! Our Level 3 Award in Preparing to Work in Home Based Childcare teaches you all the steps to childminding success. You’ll learn how to safeguard children, promote their development, and start a home business.
Ideal for new and experienced childminders alike. Our Preparing to Work in Home Based Childcare course is approved by Ofsted, Pacey and CACHE. These are three of the leading organisations for education and childcare in the UK. Specifically designed to prepare you to work in any home based setting as a registered childminder.
You’ll develop the skills to meet the growing demand of a fast-growing population in the UK. As a result, the Cache level 3 childcare qualification you gain will be highly sought after and desirable by employers. Oh, and did you know the advantages of home based childminding are pretty amazing, too:
The Level 3 Preparing to Work in Home Based Childcare is an ideal course for people seeking or considering qualifications in other areas of childcare. This might include studying an Early Year Educator diploma, which grants you fully-qualified sector status, as well as a license and the right to practice.
This course is a formally recognised RQF qualification and is recognised throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.
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CACHE stands for the Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education, and are the leading specialist Awarding Organisation for the Care and Education Sector.
Total Qualification Time (Hours): 60
Guided Learning (Hours): 50
You have up to a year to complete this course. This is usually ample time for learners, even with full-time jobs and other commitments. Don’t worry if you go over the year though, we can organise an extension to your course for a small fee, which also extends your tutor support.
Throughout this course, you may be expected to complete assignments, essays, research projects, presentations, video/audio recordings, and practical learning sessions to meet the requirements of your course. This information will be included in your study pack detailing exactly what you need to do to accomplish your goals as a student.
There will be self-assessment questions, and tutor marked assignments (TMAs), to enable you to monitor your progress.
In 2015, NCFE acquired CACHE. As of September 2017, our CACHE courses will now be known as NCFE CACHE, and you will receive your certificate from both awarding bodies.
This qualification comes with NCFE CACHE Level 3 certification. NCFE CACHE have been developing courses in the childcare, education and healthcare sectors since 1945 and are one of the most reputable awarding bodies for qualifications in the UK and overseas. Practitioners working in these areas are much more employable having gained NCFE CACHE certification and many employers specifically ask for their qualifications when taking on members of staff.
The aim of this unit is to provide learners with the knowledge required to work with children in a home based childcare setting. You’ll learn about current legislation, building a safe environment, and how to safeguard children. You’ll also look at equality and diversity, how day-to-day routines promote well-being, and working in partnership to support children. Finally, gain an understanding of learning behaviours, the value of play, and the role of observation in the childhood development.
You will have access to your personal tutor, via email and telephone, who will mark your assignments and guide you through the course. In addition, you will be supplied with a comprehensive Study Guide which will help you through the study and assessment process. Your personal tutor will be highly experienced in their subject area and qualified to teach.
You don’t need any prior skills in the subject area to start. However, as with all of our courses, we recommend a reasonable level of English reading and writing ability.
We provide all the specially written learning materials you require to study this course at home. The course fee also includes tutor support for 12 months.
No, this course is assessed by coursework alone.
No, all of the study materials are supplied within your learning pack.
You will receive everything you need to complete this course within the study pack we send to you.
That’s fine, this course can be studied anywhere and is completed by submitting Tutor marked assignments (TMAs).
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